Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRSwas Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 August 1809
blue wife long
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
men years long
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
time jewels long
Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
beach long sublime
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
home blood long
I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.
moon long long-day
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.
life long mechanic
The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.
love-is long life-is
Life is brief but love is LONG .
ignorance long naked
Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long
truth mind boundless
This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
men coins currents
Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
fire clouds west
Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
faith feelings doubt
Faith lives in honest doubt.
country men cosmopolitanism
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.